Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell , 54 , still has shrapnel in his stomach after being hit by mortar fire while covering the civil war in Sarajevo last August . |
| 2 | All Saints Church had been erected in 1876–8 , but after being damaged during World War II , it was demolished and most of its parish was combined with that of St Barnabas so that the latter church was renamed All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 3 | Mr French was jailed earlier this year after being convicted of animal cruelty charges . |
| 4 | In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG . |
| 5 | A LIVERPOOL man was starting a life sentence in a Thailand prison today after being convicted of trafficking heroin worth £200,000 . |
| 6 | Peter Howell was stabbed just two hours after being released from policy custody . |
| 7 | Andrew and John were recruited with the objective of being prepared for Shell work on the Brent contract , and have systematically followed a route of planned training , to work for Wood Group Engineering Contractors on a Shell site and installation . |
| 8 | Trainee teachers should have the option of being prepared for research activity in this area . |
| 9 | Trainee teachers should have the option of being prepared for research activity in this area . |
| 10 | Freud 's theory of the super-ego concentrates on the ways in which the evaluative symbols are internalized by members of the society , and as such is capable of being integrated into action theory . |
| 11 | Instead of being directed to Platform Number One , the mighty Riddles designed 4-6-2 engine was attached to the front of the humble BR workhorse and shunted the shunter into another siding . |
| 12 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 13 | Sadly , the Venets ' experience of being accused of child abuse is not uncommon . |
| 14 | For instance , it prevented people from being excluded from trade union membership and he denied that this clause was in because of the European Social Charter . |
| 15 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 16 | Work on the project started last year when Bennington developed prototypes which were put through months of stringent trials before being approved for flight use . |
| 17 | His great technical knowledge and ability were combined with thoroughness ; all important engineering drawings were personally approved by him and all new features were tested on prototypes before being put into quantity production . |
| 18 | This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon . |
| 19 | For the first year after transfer full excess fares less any increase in office allowance will be paid by the company , costs to be based on season ticket rates where appropriate . |
| 20 | It used to be said in World War Two that careless talk cost lives . |
| 21 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 22 | Suppose he were to marry only to be faced with mutton broth ? |
| 23 | After everything had been checked Diana ordered the contents to be transferred to plastic dustbin liners . |
| 24 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
| 25 | Later this month ( June ) the test is to be extended to South East England . |
| 26 | Kaleida will initially be housed at Apple 's headquarters , but there are plans for it to be relocated to Silicon Valley later in the year . |
| 27 | Gutter sealant may need to be applied to metal guttering , and plastic guttering may need the replacement of perished foam gaskets |
| 28 | So much yeast is produced during fermentation that large amounts are sold to companies such as Marmite to be turned into yeast extract . |
| 29 | Vanessa Weaver is the fourth person this year to be killed during horse eventing . |
| 30 | But times , morals and attitudes had changed radically since 1922 ( the Indianapolis Star also got the year wrong ) when Wally Reid , the ‘ King of Paramount ’ , was placed in a sanatorium to be treated for drug abuse . |